Video View Increase Benefits?

I often see on BH people trying to manipulate the amount of views that a video clip gets by using tools such as TubeBooster.

What are the benefits that you see, to justify doing this?

The benefits I see are:
- Gives the video/channel more exposure if it qualifies for a YT award (for example, #1 most views today etc)

- When people see the video has thousands of views they will be more likely want to add a video response, as they will think it will help them get more traffic. This in turn helps you as their video will say it's a response to your video.

Can you guys think of other advantages of upping the view count of your videos?

Do you (or anybody else) know if TubeBooster still works? I've had it installed for a while but not used it in ages. Upon loading it's asking me to update to 2.1.14.0 but if YT have some how prevented it from working, there isn't any point.

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